I said this on Reddit and they agreed that you don't deserve to be alive if you're not working, it's really a disease of the mind to believe this shit.
I live in Grand Rapids, MI where the tap water is 2.4 ppt PFAS. I buy reverse osmosis purified from the store for $0.50 a gallon for drinking, and will continue to do so until I get my own place where I'll install an under-sink one
Objectively pay-to-win garbage that survives purely off novelty, but god damn if it isn't fun at the highest level of play. Once you've paid for all the content, there are very few games that allow that level of variety and character customization.
About to bail on my HR job because I'm shit at it. Redoing my resume to try and get an IT position instead. I'm young enough to pivot. I also have work experience and half of a master's, which is more than 99% of people applying for Helpdesk jobs. Only problem is I'll probably be taking a huge pay cut and still need to make rent. We'll see how it goes.
Kind of? Not really. With FIAT, central banks can influence the creation of money through quantitative easing, adjusting interest rates, etc. They are also backed by their respective governments, which ensures their value as a medium of exchange and store of value. They represent the economic output of the countries they are tied to, which is real and measurable, and are guaranteed value by the system of government as a whole. Bitcoin's supply is algorithmically generated, and its value is only representative of the number of people who agree that it has speculative value. Bitcoin also doesn't have financial products that have intrinsic value such as stocks and bonds, which are backed by powerful institutions that can ensure dividends/profit. Bitcoin is a low-utility, scarcely accepted security whose main perk is its ability to cash out to FIAT. Because of this, you need to rely on someone to buy you BTC at a higher price than you bought it; that's the only real way to make money on it.
It's not profit until it's converted to FIAT, which causes the value of BTC to drop. Crypto can't generate money, it can only move it around. Someone always loses.
This is the plot of Outriders